Betsy Whitt

Every marriage has points of frustration. It’s part and parcel of two entirely disparate people living together and I’m convinced, to some extent, with the knowledge that THIS WILL NEVER END. There’s no finding another roommate when this lease runs out. And even though people get divorced for all sorts of reasons, […]

I’m almost done with all the extended deadline stuff. If today goes well, I’ll be even more well on my way.
Tomorrow’s pretty busy. At the very least, I’ll be baking a dessert and shopping for a wedding shower gift for one of my friends, then going to said shower in the […]

I do not recommend spilling hot candle wax on one’s hair.
Not that most people would think it was a good idea, but I will advise you all to be especially careful around head-level liquid wax, because accidental spilling leads to the same result as intentional application.
The front right quadrant of my head […]

I’m not sure if you’ll be able to see this, because I can’t really leave my desk and I have no desire to go out and take a picture outside, but we have big fat snowflakes coming down outside, and it doesn’t look like they’re going to stop anytime soon.

Yesterday? It was […]

Okay, I really am going to work on my synopsis very, very soon, but I felt it would be irresponsible to pass up the opportunity to talk up the Australian National Public Toilet Map. That is, a conveniently searchable, browsable database for “Locating public toilet facilities in cities, towns, rural areas, and along major […]

On some levels it’s nice to know that despite enforcing a spending hiatus during March and almost all of April, I haven’t lost the knack for tossing away large sums of money in one afternoon. Today’s spending wasn’t even frivolous - I browsed through two shoe stores AND my favorite bookstore and left all […]

Now that I’m back in the land of wifi, it’s time for at least a quick update.

Had a great time in Ohio with friends and family. My nephew William is just as much of a charmer as I thought, and I’m especially glad I got to meet him. Oh, and my brother […]

Yesterday was very productive. Today, so far, is looking good. It’s only 9am and I’m already almost done with my morning fiddle-faddling online, which might be considered a miracle, given my recent sleeping patterns.
And I’m feeling good about making more progress on the novel today, so I’m going to leave you […]

Remember how I was bragging about how warm and beautiful it was on Saturday? It actually got above 70.
Well, yesterday it might have gotten as warm as 30, if we’re lucky, and we got about three inches of the wettest, nastiest snow I think I’ve ever seen… and since the ground was […]

The weekend was good. I didn’t write quite as much as I hoped, but I did get the ball rolling. I have four writing days this week, so momentum is good. I’ll have to cut down some of this material, or else it will take too long to introduce my hero, but […]